Re: this is not an attack on southerners,
Ah, not so carp king, there are plenty of northern jokes, here's a few about my neighbor Maine:<br /><br />You Know You're in Maine: <br /><br />If you own more than four pair of gloves. <br /><br />If every other vehicle is a 4X4. <br /><br />If camping is allowed it's only in steel sided campers. <br /><br />If, when the sun goes down, you start looking for your coat. <br /><br />If in March your vehicle is 43% mud. <br /><br />If you leave your keys in your car and the next morning your car is still there. <br /><br />If you're on the shoulder of the highway with your hood up and somebody stops to help you. <br /><br />If you can pay for six big macs with a personal check. <br /><br />If drive by shootings only occur on the evening news. <br /><br />If your central heating system is fueled by large logs. <br /><br />If you see numerous chauffeur-driven dogs. <br /><br />If you can see the stars at night. <br /><br />If people drive 100 miles to shop in a real mall. <br /><br />If a deer throws itself under your wheels. <br /><br />If you got a set of new snow tires for Valentines day. <br /><br />If more than 1/2 the meat in your freezer is moose. <br /><br />If the term "chill factor" is part of your daily vocabulary. <br /><br />If the bumper jack in your pickup will lift a house. <br /><br />If you only paid $5 to cut down your own douglas fir christmas tree. <br /><br />If you enjoy a hot chocolate more than you do a margarita. <br /><br />If a girls basketball game fill's the school gym. <br /><br />If you put the car heater on your list of best friends. <br /><br />If you pawned a snow blower instead of a set of golf clubs. <br /><br />If dressing up means wearing a tie with your flannel shirt. <br /><br />If you think you're in a traffic jam when you're in the second car at the light. <br /><br />If you don't use your blinker because everyone already knows where you're going. <br /><br />If your long john's don't come off until mid-May <br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />Ten Dollahs<br />Stumpy Grinder and his wife Martha were from Portland, Maine. Every year they went to the Portland Fair, and every year Stumpy said " Ya know Mahtha, I'd like ta get a ride in that theah aihplane." <br /><br />and every year Martha would say "I know Stumpy, but that ihplane ride costs ten dollahs.... and ten dollahs is ten dollahs." <br /><br />So Stumpy says " By Jeebers Mahtha, I'm 71 yeahs old, if I don't go this time I may nevah go." <br /><br />Martha replies " Stumpy, that there aihplane ride is ten dollahs...and ten dollahs is ten dollahs." <br /><br />So the pilot overhears them and says " Folks, I'll make you a deal, I'll take you both up for a ride, if you can stay quiet for the entire ride and not say ONE word, I won't charge you, but just one word and it's ten dollars." <br /><br />They agree and up they go.... the pilot does all kinds of twists and turns, rolls and dives, but not a word is heard, he does it one more time, still nothing... so he lands. <br /><br />He turns to Stumpy as they come to a stop and says " By golly, I did everything I could think of to get you to holler out, but you didn't." <br /><br />And Stumpy replies " Well, I was gonna say something when Mahtha fell out...but ten dollahs is ten dollahs! <br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />Maine Winters<br />Some engineers from the U.S.G.S. surveyed some property and found that in a area, the New Hampshire and Maine border must be changed. They stopped to inform a farmer that he was no longer in Maine, but in New Hampshire. <br /><br />After a long pause, he grunted and said, "That's good. I couldn't take another one of these Maine winters." <br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />The Teethbrush<br />Research had been going on for many years in regard to the invention of the toothbrush. Researchers knew the purpose of the device but wanted to know and acknowledge the originating location. After a very long and exasperating study, the researchers came to their conclusion about the origin of the toothbrush. It was decided that the brush was invented in Maine. <br /><br />Intrigued by the discovery, the media asked the researchers how they came to this conclusion. <br /><br />The researchers all agreed that it was simple deduction: "If it was invented anywhere else, it would have been called a teethbrush."<br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />Maine Temperature Conversion Chart<br />60 above zero<br />New Yorkers try to turn on the heat....<br />People in Maine plant gardens.<br /><br />50 above zero<br />Californians shiver uncontrollably.......<br />People in Maine sunbathe.<br /><br />40 above<br />Italian cars won't start.....<br />People in Maine drive with the windows down.<br /><br />32 above<br />Distilled water freezes.....<br />Moosehead Lak's water gets thicker (for non-Mainers, this is a lake in Maine)<br /><br />20 above<br />Floridians wear coats, gloves and woolly hats.....<br />People in Maine throw on a sweatshirt.<br /><br />15 above<br />New York landlords finally turn up the heat....<br />People in Maine have the last cook-out before it gets cold.<br /><br />zero degrees<br />People in Miami cease to exist....<br />Mainers lick the flagpole.<br /><br />-20 below<br />Californians fly away to Mexico....<br />People in Maine get out their winter coats.<br /><br />-40 below<br />Hollywood disintergrates.....<br />The girl scouts in Maine begin selling cookies door to door.<br /><br />-60 below<br />Polar bears begin to evacuate Antarctica<br />Maine's Boy Scouts postpone "Winter Survival" classes until it gets cold enough.<br /><br />-80 below<br />Mt. St. Helen's freezes...<br />People in Maine to ice skating or skiing.<br /><br />-100 below<br />Santa Claus abandons the North Pole.....<br />Maine-iacs get frustrated when they can't thaw the keg.<br /><br />-297 below<br />Microbial life survives on dairy products....<br />Cows in Maine complain of farmers with cold hands.<br /><br />-460 below<br />ALL atomic motion stops.....<br />People in Maine start saying..."Cold 'nuff for ya?"<br /><br />-500 below<br />Hell freezes over......<br />The Red Sox win the world series!!<br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />Computer Terms for Aroostook County (Northern Maine)<br />1. Log on - Make the wood stove hotter <br /><br />2. Log off - Don't add no more wood <br /><br />3. Monitor - Keep an eye on that wood stove <br /><br />4. Download - Getting the firewood off the truck <br /><br />5. Floppy disk - What you get from downloading too much firewood <br /><br />6. Ram - The thing that splits the firewood <br /><br />7. Hard Drive - Getting home in the winter <br /><br />8. Prompt - What the US mail ain't in the winter <br /><br />9. Window - What to shut when its cold outside <br /><br />10. Screen - What to shut in black fly season <br /><br />11. Byte - What the black flies do <br /><br />12. Bit - What the black flies did <br /><br />13. Mega Byte - What the BIG black flies do during trout season <br /><br />14. Chip - Munchies for TV <br /><br />15. Micro Chip - What's left in the bag after you eat chips <br /><br />16. Modem - What you did to the weeds growing in the driveway <br /><br />17. Dot matrix - Old Dan Matrix's wife <br /><br />18. Lap top - Where the beer spills when you nod off <br /><br />19. Software - The dumb plastic knives and forks at McDonalds <br /><br />20. Hardware - Real stainless steel cutlery <br /><br />21. Mouse - What makes the holes in the Cheerio box <br /><br />22. Main frame - What holds the house up, hopefully <br /><br />23. Enter - The only way to win those magazine sweepstakes <br /><br />24. Web - What a spider makes <br /><br />25. Web site - High corners of the ceiling <br /><br />26. Cursor - Someone who swears <br /><br />27. Search Engine - What you do when the car dies <br /><br />28. Screen Saver - repair kit for the torn window screen on the camp <br /><br />29. Home Page - map you keep in your back pocket in case you get lost in the woods <br /><br />30. Upgrade - Steep hill <br /><br />31. Server - waitress <br /><br />32. Mail Server - male waitress. Darn few in Maine <br /><br />33. MS DOS - Some new disease they discovered <br /><br />34. Sound Card - One of them technological birthday cards that plays music when you open it <br /><br />35 User - The neighbor who keeps borrowing your stuff <br /><br />6. Browser - A problem moose in the Garden or Blueberry patch <br /><br />37. Network - Mending holes in the gillnet <br /><br />38. Internet - Complicated fish net repair <br /><br />39. Netscape - What haddock do when you don't do your network <br /><br />40. Online - good sign there'll be clean clothes this week <br /><br />41. Off line - the clothes pins let go and the laundry falls on the ground - better luck next week <br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />Buying Houses<br />I have a friend in Maine who lives out in the country in a house he and his wife built. One day he was talking to his nephew and the following conversation ensued.<br /><br />"Uncle, do people buy houses?"<br /><br />"Yes."<br /><br />"How do they get them home?"
